Homework
noun
Tasks given by teachers to students to be done outside of class times.
The teacher assigned math homework.
Often appears as...
- do your homework
- finish homework
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Academic
noun
A thorough research or investigation into a topic or situation.
Before investing, make sure to do your homework on the company.
Often appears as...
- do homework
- homework on something
noun
Preparation or groundwork done in advance for an event or situation.
He did his homework before the meeting.
Often appears as...
- do homework
- diligent homework
noun
Tasks given by teachers to students to be done outside of class times.
The teacher assigned math homework.
Often appears as...
- do your homework
- finish homework
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A thorough research or investigation into a topic or situation.
Before investing, make sure to do your homework on the company.
Often appears as...
- do homework
- homework on something
noun
Preparation or groundwork done in advance for an event or situation.
He did his homework before the meeting.
Often appears as...
- do homework
- diligent homework
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Deadline Implied
Homework implies a deadline by which tasks must be completed.
My history homework is due next Wednesday.
Pro Tip 2/3Subject Specific
Homework is often specific to a particular subject being studied.
We have to read five poems for our literature homework.
Pro Tip 3/3Performance Indicator
Teachers use homework to evaluate a student's understanding and progress.
Our teacher checks our homework every week to monitor our progress.
Pro Tip 1/3Deadline Implied
Homework implies a deadline by which tasks must be completed.
My history homework is due next Wednesday.
Pro Tip 2/3Subject Specific
Homework is often specific to a particular subject being studied.
We have to read five poems for our literature homework.
Pro Tip 3/3Performance Indicator
Teachers use homework to evaluate a student's understanding and progress.
Our teacher checks our homework every week to monitor our progress.
Pro Tip 1/3Deadline Implied
Homework implies a deadline by which tasks must be completed.
My history homework is due next Wednesday.
Pro Tip 2/3Subject Specific
Homework is often specific to a particular subject being studied.
We have to read five poems for our literature homework.
Pro Tip 3/3Performance Indicator
Teachers use homework to evaluate a student's understanding and progress.
Our teacher checks our homework every week to monitor our progress.
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Eduardo Briceño: How to...
to learn from them, or when we look for narrow responses rather than encourage more exploratory thinking that we can all learn from. When all homework or student work has a number or a letter on it, and counts towards a final grade, rather than being used for practice, mistakes, feedback and revision, we send the message that school is a performance zone.
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Depression, the secret...
She said, "There's one room in my new place for the boys and one room for the girls, but at night, they're just all up on my bed, and we're doing homework all together and everything. One of them wants to be a preacher, one of them wants to be a firefighter, and one of the girls says she's going to be a lawyer. They don't cry like they used to,
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The difference between...
like getting a night of no homework because you did well on an exam. Let's look at an example of operant conditioning. After eating dinner with your family, you clear the table and wash the dishes. When you're done, your mom gives you a big hug and says, "Thank you for helping me." In this situation, your mom's response
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How to Raise Successful...
There's no room in the afternoons, because everything has to be enriching, we think. It's as if every piece of homework, every quiz, every activity is a make-or-break moment for this future we have in mind for them, and we absolve them of helping out around the house, and we even absolve them of getting enough sleep
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How Boredom Can Lead to...
because, if you think about it, if you have never known life without connectivity, you may never have experienced boredom. And there could be consequences. Researchers at USC have found -- they're studying teenagers who are on social media while they're talking to their friends or they're doing homework,
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What's hidden under the...
It's an important problem in our society. And it turns out that the engineering equations for how materials fracture are not that different from my physics homework. So I borrowed them, adapted them for ice, and then I had a numeric model for how a crevasse can fracture
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Science Fiction Inspires...
helpful assistants doing menial chores for humans carpet's a bit dirty leave it to robert he's the perfect household help all right like rosie the jetsons family's housekeeper who cooked cleaned and helped the kids with homework most homes today don't yet have robot
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"To This Day" ... for...
embracing violence. When I was a kid, I traded in homework assignments for friendship, then gave each friend a late slip for never showing up on time, and in most cases, not at all. I gave myself a hall pass to get through each broken promise.
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How math saved my life PIPE...
their homework math science mythology I literally had help with all of it and I remember it was my second senior year or my second because I skipped so much school the first year I couldn't pass and so during the second year I had
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How to raise a Black son...
Growing up, I didn't always understand why my parents made me follow the rules that they did. Like, why did I really have to mow the lawn? Why was homework really that important? Why couldn't I put jelly beans in my oatmeal?
Video examples
Eduardo Briceño: How to...
to learn from them, or when we look for narrow responses rather than encourage more exploratory thinking that we can all learn from. When all homework or student work has a number or a letter on it, and counts towards a final grade, rather than being used for practice, mistakes, feedback and revision, we send the message that school is a performance zone.
Video examples
Depression, the secret...
She said, "There's one room in my new place for the boys and one room for the girls, but at night, they're just all up on my bed, and we're doing homework all together and everything. One of them wants to be a preacher, one of them wants to be a firefighter, and one of the girls says she's going to be a lawyer. They don't cry like they used to,
Video examples
The difference between...
like getting a night of no homework because you did well on an exam. Let's look at an example of operant conditioning. After eating dinner with your family, you clear the table and wash the dishes. When you're done, your mom gives you a big hug and says, "Thank you for helping me." In this situation, your mom's response
Video examples
How to Raise Successful...
There's no room in the afternoons, because everything has to be enriching, we think. It's as if every piece of homework, every quiz, every activity is a make-or-break moment for this future we have in mind for them, and we absolve them of helping out around the house, and we even absolve them of getting enough sleep
Video examples
How Boredom Can Lead to...
because, if you think about it, if you have never known life without connectivity, you may never have experienced boredom. And there could be consequences. Researchers at USC have found -- they're studying teenagers who are on social media while they're talking to their friends or they're doing homework,
Video examples
What's hidden under the...
It's an important problem in our society. And it turns out that the engineering equations for how materials fracture are not that different from my physics homework. So I borrowed them, adapted them for ice, and then I had a numeric model for how a crevasse can fracture
Video examples
Science Fiction Inspires...
helpful assistants doing menial chores for humans carpet's a bit dirty leave it to robert he's the perfect household help all right like rosie the jetsons family's housekeeper who cooked cleaned and helped the kids with homework most homes today don't yet have robot
Video examples
"To This Day" ... for...
embracing violence. When I was a kid, I traded in homework assignments for friendship, then gave each friend a late slip for never showing up on time, and in most cases, not at all. I gave myself a hall pass to get through each broken promise.
Video examples
How math saved my life PIPE...
their homework math science mythology I literally had help with all of it and I remember it was my second senior year or my second because I skipped so much school the first year I couldn't pass and so during the second year I had
Video examples
How to raise a Black son...
Growing up, I didn't always understand why my parents made me follow the rules that they did. Like, why did I really have to mow the lawn? Why was homework really that important? Why couldn't I put jelly beans in my oatmeal?
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Gregory Hines
American Actor
I've had times when I've done what seems like a thousand interviews to promote a film that I'm in. I start to think that I'm the best thing that ever happened to the world, talkin' about myself for cryin' out loud. Then I come home, and my wife needs me to help with dinner and empty the garbage, and the kids need help with their homework.
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Bad Bunny
Puerto Rican Singer
I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home.
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Julie Andrews
English Actress
When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen.
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Jisshu Sengupta
Indian Actor
I am an actor and I do not have to relate to whatever I play on screen them at a personal level. What is important is to understand the character, do enough homework to know the frame of mind of the character or his back story.
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Joe Mantegna
American Actor
Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.
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Genndy Tartakovsky
Russian Director
I used to work until two in the morning every night, then still get up at six. Now, I have to help my daughter with her homework, spend time with my wife.
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Karen DeCrow
American Activist
Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
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Jules Shear
American Musician
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
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Fantasia Barrino
American Musician
I didn't want to be the type of mother where my child came to me, and I can't even help her with her homework.
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John Lutz
American Actor
Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
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Gregory Hines
American Actor
I've had times when I've done what seems like a thousand interviews to promote a film that I'm in. I start to think that I'm the best thing that ever happened to the world, talkin' about myself for cryin' out loud. Then I come home, and my wife needs me to help with dinner and empty the garbage, and the kids need help with their homework.
Quote examples
Bad Bunny
Puerto Rican Singer
I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home.
Quote examples
Julie Andrews
English Actress
When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen.
Quote examples
Jisshu Sengupta
Indian Actor
I am an actor and I do not have to relate to whatever I play on screen them at a personal level. What is important is to understand the character, do enough homework to know the frame of mind of the character or his back story.
Quote examples
Joe Mantegna
American Actor
Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.
Quote examples
Genndy Tartakovsky
Russian Director
I used to work until two in the morning every night, then still get up at six. Now, I have to help my daughter with her homework, spend time with my wife.
Quote examples
Karen DeCrow
American Activist
Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
Quote examples
Jules Shear
American Musician
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
Quote examples
Fantasia Barrino
American Musician
I didn't want to be the type of mother where my child came to me, and I can't even help her with her homework.
Quote examples
John Lutz
American Actor
Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
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